Software Engineering Intern
Location: US, CA, San Francisco
Department: Growth
Required experience: Internship
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Engineering

Company profile:
Intercom (#URL_cb674f93cbcd215a3a0a57a8615a565545949eead8adbbc73307c26d6a6af81b#) is a simple, personal messaging service for businesses and their customers. It provides a single, integrated platform for the whole company to use for support, marketing, product, sales communication and more.We’re on a mission to make web and mobile business personal. We believe that the future of customer communication requires not increasingly complex, impersonal point solutions, but rather a simple, seamless platform that applies innovations found in consumer services like Facebook and WhatsApp.Founded in late 2011, Intercom has raised over $30 million in venture capital and is backed by leading investors, The Social+Capital Partnership and Bessemer Venture Partners. Intercom has been adopted by thousands of businesses, including Heroku, Hootsuite, Rackspace, Yahoo! and Perfect Audience. Our customers love the product: #URL_18cc302f4e0f1dac521853b2a6ae109ebbe44c6130d31eb0413535ba71e2f42f#We like big thinkers with small egos who believe in our goal to build a uniquely impactful, long-lasting tech company. Our vision is to fundamentally change forever how Internet businesses and their customers communicate.

Job description:
About the internshipAs an intern on the Growth team, you will work alongside the full-time engineers on growing Intercom. Growth interns ship code daily; can build to scale; and are excited not just about technology but ultimately the problems it can solve.To be a good fit, you should also:Have lots of ideas about how the products you use day-to-day could be better; you should be able to justify these opinions.Enjoy moving fast: we continuously ship changes to production dozens of times a day.Be proud of what you work on.Be able to effectively and concisely communicate ideas through writing.Have evidence of things you've built previously, that you're proud of.Being a Growth Intern is a great opportunity to learn from and work with a world class product team (incl. ex-Facebook, Yammer, Google, Amazon, Apple).About the companyIntercom (#URL_cb674f93cbcd215a3a0a57a8615a565545949eead8adbbc73307c26d6a6af81b#) is a simple, personal messaging service for businesses and their customers. It provides a single, integrated platform for the whole company to use for support, marketing, product, sales communication and more.We’re on a mission to make web and mobile business personal. We believe that the future of customer communication requires not increasingly complex, impersonal point solutions, but rather a simple, seamless platform that applies innovations found in consumer services like Facebook and WhatsApp.Founded in late 2011, Intercom has raised over $30 million in venture capital and is backed by leading investors, The Social+Capital Partnership and Bessemer Venture Partners. Intercom has been adopted by thousands of businesses, including Heroku, Hootsuite, Rackspace, Yahoo! and Perfect Audience. Our customers love the product: #URL_18cc302f4e0f1dac521853b2a6ae109ebbe44c6130d31eb0413535ba71e2f42f#We like big thinkers with small egos who believe in our goal to build a uniquely impactful, long-lasting tech company. Our vision is to fundamentally change forever how Internet businesses and their customers communicate.

Requirements:
Excellent technical ability. You should be comfortable starting projects from scratch, and comfortable jumping into existing codebases. You should have evidence of things you have built in the past that you're proud of. You should know one programming language really well.Great culture fit. We love what we do, we love our work, therefore we want to love the people we work with. You must be ambitious, eager to learn and improve yourself, excited about technology and the future of the internet, kind, without ego and with a sense of humour.Able to legally work in San Francisco for the duration of the internship (approx. 3 months, Summer 2014).Currently in, or recently completed: high school, community college, or a bachelors programme.Bonus: Good design &amp; product sense. We're primarily interested in building products, not technology. Great product is rarely a solely technical feat — it requires great design thinking also.

Benefits:
Salary for the duration of your internship.Catered lunch &amp; dinner served every day.Opportunity to work with an amazing team, on high-impact problems.